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RFE/RL: Who is the Ukrainian tycoon wanted by the US on bribery charges?

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash is pictured prior to a public hearing at the higher regional court in Vienna on Feb. 21, 2017.
Photo by AFP

Dmytro Firtash, the Ukrainian power broker whom the United States is seeking to put on trial, built his massive fortune on opaque gas trading with a Kremlin-controlled company.

Austria’s Supreme Court on June 25 upheld a lower court decision to extradite him to the United States to face bribery charges filed six years ago.

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